Wu Min, the commander of the navy, tightened his face at this time, but there was a smile in his eyes.

He said with a straight face: "At this moment, where do I dare to mention the word arrangement?" It's just that there is a request from the Hantang Group.

The stakes are so great that we must meet them in person--I saw the banner of the Han and Tang groups on your ship at the head of the city, so I summoned you to come-"

Army Commander General Zhang Yue was impatient and said: "Let's be honest, my brothers and I have already arranged secret outposts to Taiwan, and I also know that you are the clear sentry of the Han and Tang groups - these are all right, when the Tatar cavalry first came, my brothers and I originally wanted to find you, but you ran as fast as a rabbit - I was about to arrange a sea ship to go to Taiwan, and I saw you again, I beg you if you have something, you take all our relatives to Taiwan!" ”

Manager He Bin was so frightened that he almost jumped up and blurted out: "How to make it?" ”

Army Commander General Zhang Yue was stunned.

Wu Min, the commander of the navy, smiled, but his eyes were cold, and he said, "How can you not do it?" ”

He Bin felt that he was too nervous, he secretly exhaled and said, "How can I, He De, bear the trust of the two generals?" ”

Wu Min, the commander of the navy, said quietly: "Of course you can't afford it, of course your Guangfa logistics company can't afford it, but the Hantang Group behind you can afford it!"

Don't be surprised—there's a very simple reason for this: it's not that the Han and Tang cliques have guns, artillery, and big iron ships, it's something of naval warfare—if that's all there is, why don't I go to the Tartars? They are invincible in the world on land - can my brother and I get a great fortune? Isn't Wu Sangui red now?

But see a little, those who are close to your Hantang Group have all benefited, without exception; Most of those who are close to the Tartar are unlucky and do not have a good end - your Hantang group has never boasted of benevolence, but I believe in your benevolence; The Tartars always boast of their benevolence and righteousness, but we know that they must be evil—Wu Sangui, I assert here that this man will not die a good death! ”

Army Commander General Zhang Yue said: "It's really tiring to talk like this, Manager He, just a few words, my eldest brother just believes in your Hantang Group, I will entrust your important family members to you to take away, and you don't have to worry about their lives when you go to Taiwan, I have this industry there - but I am still a little worried, after all, you can still speak, I ask you to take care of it!" ”

Manager He Bin stood up generously at this time, arched his hand and said: "I, He Bin, have been so trusted by the two generals that I dare not die for my life!" ”

Army Commander Zhang Yue said: "Lao He, you can't die, we are still counting on you!" ”

Wu Min, the commander of the navy, took over the words and said with a smile: "If there is no greeting gift, how can you ask for care?" ”

He raised an arm, stopped Manager He Bin's defense, and continued: "Of course, we know that the Hantang Group doesn't like gold, silver, jewelry and jade, they like 'technicians', this time my brothers and I collected all the craftsmen in the official register for the needs of city defense, although there were a lot scattered earlier, but what was left was a master craftsman, of course, gunpowder, blacksmith, woodwork, etc., your Hantang Group may be more than my Guangzhou City, it is really the need for city defense - the rest, even their whole family has been sent to Taiwan!" ”

Manager He Bin was overjoyed, but said quietly on his face: "Thank you to the two generals for looking up to my Hantang Group!" ”

Army Commander General Zhang Yue finally finished gnawing the pig's hand and threw it on the table, and the pig's hand bones were dripping and turning on the table.

He said: "I heard that Taiwan has a gold medal pork knuckle, which is very delicious, and the proprietress is also a beauty, and it has to be marinated by her own hands to be delicious, but I can taste it one day, see if it is true or false - well, I will patrol the city, this will be a battle to the death!" ”

After saying that, he got up and left, without even saying hello.

Wu Min, the commander of the navy, sat on the main seat and stood still, and Manager He Bin had to sit still.

This dinner made Manager He Bin a little frightened, this Ming military general is not easy to get along.

Wu Min, the commander of the navy, scratched his scalp with his thick little finger, and the bun moved with the scratching.

"Let's talk about it, Manager He, why does your Hantang Group only recruit 2,000 elite soldiers? I really don't understand why you are happy to farm and create. If the Ming Dynasty loses its fat deer, there is no heart to chase the world? I can't understand the information that comes back every time I send it back—"

Manager He Bin was speechless for a while. He knew that the Hantang Group was playing a big game of chess, but he really couldn't guess what the outcome of this big chess would be - he was just a chess piece.

"You're just a pawn, and so am we." Wu Min, the commander of the navy, revealed the desolation unique to middle-aged people in his tone, and said slowly, "In the past, we had nowhere to choose, but we just fought to the death, but now, there is this Han Tang Group again-the strength of the sea is so strong, but we can't understand it, and you can't understand it."

Forget it, you go and get busy with you, tomorrow afternoon, I will arrange a warship to send you, this Tartar is too arrogant outside the city, and openly begins to make building cars - let them know the power of my Wu family's naval army! ”

A glass cup burst in the hands of Wu Min, the commander of the navy, and his hand was not injured, which was a good sign.

There was nothing to say all night, and in the afternoon of the next day, Manager He Bin took a sea ship full of people of all colors, and slowly went out of Xishui Pass, the red Han and Tang flags, as soon as they came out of the pass, they rose again, and at this time they were fluttering in the wind - two Ming warships opened the way in front.

Wu Min, the commander of the naval army, was holding a monocular on the city wall to observe, and suddenly found that there were three river boats behind those sea boats, he was stunned for a moment, and thought, I have called the river boat escort in the water camp? But seeing that the three river boats were also men, women, and children, there were also men, women, and children -- maybe it was just a temporary arrangement by Manager He Bin, so it didn't matter.

He pointed the monocular out of the city again.

This Tartar is too arrogant, they think that going down to Ganzhou, breaking Nanxiong, Keshaoguan, and having a smooth journey, they even openly made siege equipment on the banks of the Pearl River, how can people swallow this breath? !

In the line of Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan, and Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan.

Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan, touched his shiny scalp with one hand, and used his thick fingers with the other hand to scratch around on a map of Guangzhou City in the style of ink freehand painting.

Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, said: "Uncle, the little ones got a lot of supplies yesterday, and they didn't have to worry about the month--I got a few beauties, and the small ones, I kept them for you to sleep-"

Pingnan Wang Shang Kexi didn't raise his head, snorted his nose, and said, "Mainly grain-"

"Uncle, of course, this one goes and eats one by one, and the military rations are all in vain--the building car is being made, look at that, it's over today-"

"Okay, let's get those stronger Nanban people to practice—"

"Well, isn't it just for siege to keep them - it's still simple to push a building cart."

Two miles outside the water gate in the west of Guangzhou City,

Hundreds of slaves were busy, and under the command of the craftsmen of the Tartar army, they tore down the big houses of the southern barbarians, and picked out the fine timber from them, and made them into wagons.

The building car was the most common siege weapon in ancient times, especially in the Song, Yuan, Ming and early Qing dynasties, and its frequency was second only to ladders.

It is poorly maneuverable, slow-paced, and not as durable as it might have been - and it is time-consuming, laborious, and poorly maneuverable, and it also consumes a lot of fresh hides to prevent fire, that is, the main building blocks are covered with the bloody inner side facing out.

But it really works, because the long-range offensive methods of both the offensive and defensive sides are really terrible, and in fact, they fight for numbers and manpower.

Another key point is that this kind of building car has to be manufactured at the siege site.

Seeing the spaciousness of the riverbank, the Tartars thought it was a good place to build a chariot, and they did not yet have the idea that danger came from the water.

More than a dozen built building cars were placed on the bank of the river one after another, and the huge wooden wheels on the cars were more than one person high.

Build a few more today, and the task assigned to them by the above will be completed.

The head of the craftsmen in the army is surnamed Shang Ming, but he is not related to King Shang Kexi of Pingnan.

Pingnan Wang Shang Kexi's ancestral home in Hongdong, Shanxi, and later to Hengshui, Hebei, in 1576, his grandfather Shang Jiguan moved his family to Haizhou, Liaodong, where he settled.

Old man Shang was a native of Shandong, who was taken captive to the northeast by the Tatars, and was later assigned to Haizhou. He has a good carpenter's skills, and he is also good at striking iron, and slowly, he became the head of the craftsmen of the Han army in the blue flag of the Han army under the leadership of Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan.

He held a cigarette pouch pot with a wooden pole and a copper mouth, and when he walked and looked, he saw that the water skills of the carpenters he had just captured were average, and he could barely be a starter, and he despised these southern barbarian carpenters in his heart.

He was looking forward to King Pingnan conquering Guangzhou, and it is said that he would not leave after the defeat, and this piece of land would be ours. People like him and the old man should also follow the king of Pingnan to divide the land here, hire a few tenant farmers or long-term laborers, and live in peace for the rest of their lives.

He smoked a cigarette as he walked. The money rattail on his head was still trembling.

He suddenly heard someone screaming and shouting, "Look on the river, the boat of the Southern Barbarians is coming!" ”

What's so strange about the ship coming? He turned around and saw two boats coming one after the other, and there were guns on the deck of the ship!

At this time, the sailing ships of the Ming Dynasty generally had a watertight compartment structure, so the artillery ships were concentrated on the deck of the ship. And because of the poor lateral endurance, the artillery could not be too much, let alone a salvo - but it was more than enough to bully the Tartars who did not have ships.

These two ships are small wide boats. One of the biggest differences between the Canton ship and the Fukubune is that it is stronger, and it is generally made of iron ploughwood, and if a ship of the same size collides, the Fufufu, which is mainly made of pine and fir wood, will be defeated.

These two Cantonese ships were equipped with a total of eight guns, the size of 12 pounds and 8 pounds respectively, all of which were exchanged from the city of Geranza in Taiwan, and the gun carriages were prepared by the navy itself, and they had been tested early on, and the effect was okay.

I don't know what to do on the banks of the Pearl River, it's a bit messy.

The archers among the Tartars were the first to react, and they began to shoot arrows, but they could not shoot, and after sixty paces the arrows had no power at all.

Someone on the boat shouted: "Lose your mother, fire!" ”